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An Eng-üsh traveler once asked a Cavan laboring1 man how far it was to a place for which he was bound. "Two miles, your reverence." "Two miles and a little more?" said the Eng-lishman, knowing, by experience, that Irishmen do not like to discourage a traveler by letting' him know tliat he has still a long walk before him. "Well, your reverence," came the reply, "it's ttvo miles stront and riel, so to spake. "